The Don's Property
I need her to understand that she is the only thing on this earth that makes sense to me.
I pull back just enough to catch her gaze. It is still as green, still as soft, and currently drowning in the same hunger that’s clawing at my gut.
“If you had even a fraction of an idea of the depth of my affection,” I rasp, my voice sounding like it’s been dragged over gravel, “you’d never doubt yourself again. You could tell me to burn this whole city to the ground, and I’d do it without a second thoughts.”
She blinks rapidly, her mouth falling open in a stunned silence. Then, slowly, the corners of her lips lift and her eyes lit up with a genuine, radiant warmth.
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